Pyridine is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 171 anagrams from letters in pyridine (deiinpry).
First recorded in 1850-55; pyr- + -id3 + -ine2
It gives a precipitate with iodine trichloride, and has therefore probably a pyridine nucleus, it may be an acid anilide.
This is not exactly the case with the higher groups of alkaloids—the derivatives of pyridine and quinoline.
This latter base has been shown to be a hydrogen addition product of pyridine, C5H5N.
Bush concluded, therefore, that pyridine and not nicotine is the toxic factor in tobacco smoke.
Indeed, Ladenberg has recently succeeded in obtaining benzol as an alteration product from pyridine, in certain reactions.
When heated with concentrated sulphuric acid, it is oxidized to pyridine.
pyridine was, however, found in the smoke of all tobacco burned.
Reference will be made later on to the effects of nicotine and pyridine on the human system.
As already stated, both series occur in coal-tar and the pyridine series also more abundantly in bone-oil.
When cinchonine is distilled with solid potassium hydrate, it yields pyrrol and bases of both the pyridine and quinoline series.